"Let me dream so I can shape the world, let me dream so I can make others dream as well, but do not let me dream my days away; lest I sleep my years away too."
Dave Guerrero
"That he will haunt the footsteps of his enemy after death is the one revenge which a dying man can promise himself; and if men had power thus to avenge themselves the earth would be peopled with phantoms. ('Eveline's Visitant')."
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
"Not forever does the bulbul singIn balmy shades of bowers,Not forever lasts the springNor ever blossom the flowers.Not forever reigneth joy,Sets the sun on days of bliss,Friendships not forever last,They know not life, who know not this."
Khushwant Singh
"Within weeks of my arrival in New York, I was someone else, not because there had been a revolution in my psychological makeup or any trauma. It was simply this: people saw me in a light in which I had never been seen before."
Siri Hustvedt
"I'm a giant pimple on the face of humanity."
Katie Alender
"Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent."
Eileen Wilks
"A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running."
Groucho Marx
"Who cares what we dream about? Just getting through each day is hard enough."
Inio Asano
"We thought we'd seen it all. The real horror of war is always waiting for you at home. It's waiting, I tell you. We were so damned happy when we got back. We'd made it. We survived. But it's always waiting. Waiting. You let down your guard. And there it is. You can't ever let up. Give up."
James Anderson
"Merciful God!' sighed the General. 'We've arrived.' And it was true. For there was the sea, and on the other side of the sea was the world."
Gabriel García Márquez
"I have brushed my teeth.This day and I are even."
Vera Pavlova
"They can march for days without eating. They impregnate every schoolgirl they meet."
Anthony Doerr
"Writing evinces the soul of an active mind and every era produced persons whom devoted their being to exploring the mysteries of life, seeking to discern answers pertaining how to resolve the complexities and paradoxes of life."
Kilroy J. Oldster
"Don't be ridiculous. Brussels sprouts are awful. Jail is just jail."
Mora Early
"Go and wake up your cook."
Arabian proverb
"People and things would continue to exist in a world where I did not, and no one would ever think of me. And, if that was the case, then what was the point of existing in the first place?"
Lottie Moggach
"One day I had nothing but my childhood to defend myself………."
Sameh Elsayed
"It must be every barrister's nightmare, something that finds him or her unprepared."
Louise Doughty
"Writing to me is like being addicted to heroin… it’s hard and its mean, but you just can’t stop."
F.D. Crandall
"The world is full of tragedy; and sympathy, a little common sympathy, can do so much to soften the worst of grief. It is for the lack of that, that people despair and go down."